How do you get people into electronic music?

insomnia said:
If you don't like it straight, then you shouldn't pretend to love it when you're on drugs.
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You sound more and more like a chin stroker every day ;)

I like EDM when I'm spangled, I just don't pretend to like it when I'm sober.

I am no music snob. I have a wide a varied taste in music that I like however if I jump in my car to head to the shops I don't put on electronic music. Ever. Rock, reggae, country.... just about anytghing else, but electronica doesn't float my boat.

I have clubbed for the best part of 18 years but I still haven't developed an appreciation of the "scene". Put a substance deep in my mind and you could pretty much bang 2 tin cans together and I'll explode into a grin and dance my arse off. Just as I have no concerns if other people have no apprecition of rugby, neither should you worry if they don't like your favourite music in it's pure form.
 
Busty St Clare said:
You sound more and more like a chin stroker every day ;)

I like EDM when I'm spangled, I just don't pretend to like it when I'm sober.

I am no music snob. I have a wide a varied taste in music that I like however if I jump in my car to head to the shops I don't put on electronic music. Ever. Rock, reggae, country.... just about anytghing else, but electronica doesn't float my boat.

I have clubbed for the best part of 18 years but I still haven't developed an appreciation of the "scene". Put a substance deep in my mind and you could pretty much bang 2 tin cans together and I'll explode into a grin and dance my arse off. Just as I have no concerns if other people have no apprecition of rugby, neither should you worry if they don't like your favourite music in it's pure form.
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I love EDM, But I can understand where your coming from. The other day a friend and I were in the car listening to some hardstyle and I just became frustrated listening to it, said "fuck this" and put in some Weezer. I don't like listening to EDM in the car because I can't move around and dance to the music. Different music for different occasions.
 
I just give people some cd's, if they like it great...have some more.

you can't really know if or when they'll get into it. maybe in 3 years time they'll pull out the music, give it another go and totally love it
 
The problem with electronic music and people getting into it is a lot of electronica dance music these days sucks. Most raves are full of commercial bullshit that lacks creativity and feeling, that's why some people "NEED" mdma to feel it.

Good EDM will make you euphoric and put you in a groove without drugs like:

Goa Trance
Psy trance
Acid House
Some IDM
Some Techno
Dubstep
ect.


Crappy EDM IMO:

Electro(BORING)
Commercial Trance
Electro House(even worse than electro)
ect.
 
I've been hearing kids use the word commercial for well over a decade.

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back at school years ago i heard an old ministry of sound 2001 album. i was a guitarist at the time. i thought to myself, this sounds good, euphoric etc. i liked it. i pursued a massive amount of different types of electronic music ever since. very into liquid drum & bass at the moment,
 
Drink a beer or two and smoke some quality cannabis, then go to a club with some good local DJs. If they can enjoy it you have a new party crew. :)
I recommend you choose a club/place with the best atmosphere.

Plan B - use some proper drugs and bring them to a hard techno party and see them go nuts. But there is a chance they will go to parties because of the drugs not music, so it's as bad as not going with you imo.

Plan C - Bring them to a "superstar" DJ party and watch what happens

(cannabis is a MUST on all 3!)
If they woun't like it at a party where the music is mixed live, they woun't like it at home in a stereo...
 
drugs...mostly lsd and mushrooms but mdma too, i couldnt imagine tripping without beats
 
piku_playground said:
I live in a small town right now where there are no raves, festivals, etc. There are some kids that go down to Phoenix to go to raves, but they are all kandi kids listening hardstyle, hhc, and all that stuff. I'd like to get groups of people together that would enjoy listening to other types of music, because it is in my opinion that electronic music is a very social music. Yes, I enjoy sitting around by my lonesome listening to good tunes while I'm sober, high, or w/e, but being in large groups of people gives listening to this stuff a different feeling. I believe that when people are dancing to their hearts content, you can literally feel good energy coming off of them. I like the look of peoples facing after they are exhausted of dancing, it makes me feel good.

So maybe I'm selfish, but I'd like to see people up here get into electronic music more. I'm not shoving it down peoples throats. I don't think what I am attempting to do is any different then people at parties playing their style of music and hoping other people will enjoy/get into it.

If no one ever tried to introduce me into their styles of music, I would still be listening to Blink-182 and Green Day, as I did in elementary school. We humans are social organisms, and I think if I have a good intent to get people to listen to this stuff in order to feel good emotions that they have never felt before, I don't believe I would be doing any wrong. My purpose isn't to get people to listen to my music ("my," funny word I keep using) so I feel it is good, I already know I like this stuff.

I could get into how I think electronic music will be the twenty first centuries concertas where co-creation will be common or that electronic music can open your eyes to things you might never have discovered with out it, but I won't. I've already overstated myself.

oh and if I'm doing anything at all to push people away from crap like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_2rrxONlLo

I'll be happy.
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Very well spoken and can completely empathize here.

I've been trying to promote electronic music for years as well in a small town. It's frustrating when seeing it as something good to share, I know that feeling well. Unfortunately it can lead to overextending yourself because you believe in it so much. There's a line to draw and sometimes if they just don't get it, they just don't get it, move on and meet people from afar at the long distance parties who really care about the music itself and aren't just on drugs or make that their primary concern for going to an event or party. Keep going and you'll see them all the time. Sooner or later they can become really good friends.

An emphasis on drugs is one of my all time pet peeves. That's what helped kill the old school scene I remember so fondly. I wonder sometimes if some of those old locations would still be viable had it been kept wayyy more underground and less profit oriented around substances. I mean, fuk, the mob got involved. Drugging people to like the music is very bad imo.

On a tangent though, ever tried making cd's to hand out? Kinda funny, I made some mix cd's and gave a few out to people. Apparently one made it's rounds because I pulled up one day at a gas station in this hick town and heard my mix boomin from some dudes stereo. I played stupid "Wow, what's that?!!!!" He informed me that it was psytrance. Very good :)

Anyway, end of rant/response, your intentions are really good.
 
I went to my first rave completely sober.... later that night someone came up to me and yelled "WHAT DID YOU TAKE?!?!? I want some of what you took!". I must have been enjoying myself too much :p
 
System said:
I went to my first rave completely sober.... later that night someone came up to me and yelled "WHAT DID YOU TAKE?!?!? I want some of what you took!". I must have been enjoying myself too much :p
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same though w/o the encounter. :p
 
Huyhiak said:
Very well spoken and can completely empathize here.

I've been trying to promote electronic music for years as well in a small town. It's frustrating when seeing it as something good to share, I know that feeling well. Unfortunately it can lead to overextending yourself because you believe in it so much. There's a line to draw and sometimes if they just don't get it, they just don't get it, move on and meet people from afar at the long distance parties who really care about the music itself and aren't just on drugs or make that their primary concern for going to an event or party. Keep going and you'll see them all the time. Sooner or later they can become really good friends.

An emphasis on drugs is one of my all time pet peeves. That's what helped kill the old school scene I remember so fondly. I wonder sometimes if some of those old locations would still be viable had it been kept wayyy more underground and less profit oriented around substances. I mean, fuk, the mob got involved. Drugging people to like the music is very bad imo.

On a tangent though, ever tried making cd's to hand out? Kinda funny, I made some mix cd's and gave a few out to people. Apparently one made it's rounds because I pulled up one day at a gas station in this hick town and heard my mix boomin from some dudes stereo. I played stupid "Wow, what's that?!!!!" He informed me that it was psytrance. Very good :)

Anyway, end of rant/response, your intentions are really good.
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Haha great story about hearing your own mix. I've been meaning to put together some stuff and hand it out, no reason not to.
 
When I was 11 my father got idea that he will be dj,he mades his own DIY audiosystem ( little shit ) and bought bunch of cds with techno


it was the Techno Club double CD with Talla 2XLC and Cosmic Gate


so I put the first CD in my radio and played the atmosferic intro,it was spiritual experience for me,the soundscape was like futuristic dream,deep as space,wonderfull


since then I was hooked
 
LuGoJ said:
I stopped trying to get people into electronic music. If they are interested, want to hear and learn more than I am more than willing to help them out but gone are the days where I try to influence what people listen to.

Some people get it, some people don't.
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This This This. My boyfriend used to listen to metal, I never forced any music on him at all or even really suggested he listen to it. He knew I liked it and eventually started checking it out. Today, I'd say it's his favorite genre and I had almost nothing to do with it, except maybe peaked some natural curiosity. I don't care what people listen to, I hate most of the music they listen to as well, so the feeling tends to be mutual. :)

I pretty much found it on my own. When I was a kid, I loved cheesy dance music and that never really went away. I got really in to it when I was a teen, and when I started going to raves and seeing it live it seemed like I had found what I was always looking for.
 
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